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Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Companies organize exodus for workers
Companies organize exodus for workersDamar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Poyo, 30, a stone mason, who works for a small developer in East Jakarta, is unhappy he cannot celebrate Idul Fitri in his hometown in Purwodadi, Central Java, this year."I am broke.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
City streets deserted as residents head for their hometowns
City streets deserted as residents head for their hometownsTantri Yuliandini, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Traveling through the city on Sunday afternoon, one was immediately struck by how empty the streets were. The roads looked almost naked without the usual knots of honking cars and buses.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Christians shorten service in face of threats
Christians shorten service in face of threatsAbdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta About 500 members of the HKBP, Gekindo and GPDI churches in the Jati Mulya housing complex in Bekasi, West Java, were forced to cut short their Sunday services after some 200 Muslim residents surrounded them.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
1. POSO: 3 x 15
1. POSO: 3 x 15 Police beef up security in tense Poso 2. REAX: 2 X 15 Religious leaders call for calm 3. CHURCH: 2 X 20 Christians shorten services in face of Muslim threats 4. VATICAN: 1 X 30 Vatican condemns Poso beheadings 5. QUAKE: 1 X 32 Pakistan, India to open Kashmir border
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Foreign company complains over court's handling of case
Foreign company complains over court's handling of caseUrip Hudiono, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Amid the government's efforts to improve Indonesia's investment climate, another commercial dispute involving a foreign company has been dealt with by the courts in a way that could once again cause...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Govt plans to merge ship makers
Govt plans to merge ship makersIndra Harsaputra, The Jakarta Post, Surabaya Following its plan to merge state enterprises in several industries -- including mining, plantations and port operators -- the government will also merge several state-owned ship makers by 2009.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Presidental office budget
Presidental office budgetPresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he was "surprised" to read in the media that his government had formally proposed to the legislature a sharp increase in the 2006 budget of his office. This news would have been funny had it not been so depressing.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
National bridge team second after Senior Bowl qualifying session
National bridge team second after Senior Bowl qualifying sessionThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Indonesian contract bridge team finished second on Saturday after the qualifying matches of the Senior Bowl in Estoril, Portugal, a spokesman of the Indonesian Contract Bridge Association (Gabsi) said on...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
'This Idul Fitri is really tough financially'
'This Idul Fitri is really tough financially' Muslims will celebrate the Idul Fitri festivities on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4. The Jakarta Post talked to a few people about the meaning of the celebration amid tougher economic times following the rising price of basic commodities due to the Oct.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Number of bus passengers drops
Number of bus passengers drops BANDUNG: The number of bus passengers traveling through Cicaheum bus terminal in Bandung is down by almost half compared to the same period last year, the station head says.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Forgive convicted Australians
Forgive convicted Australians Indonesia should have mercy on the nine Australians arrested for attempting to traffic heroin from Bali to Australia.These young people have made a mistake in their lives and now they face the consequences of their deed. However, these young lives should be spared.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
checked -- JSR
checked -- JSR World voyagers find Indonesia the toughest challengeEvi Mariani The Jakarta Post/JakartaBriton Jason Lewis, 38, has been bicycling, rollerblading, boat- pedaling and paddling canoes intermittently for the last 11 years during his human-powered, round-the-world expedition.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Mars won't be spotted thru TIM
Mars won't be spotted thru TIMTantri Yuliandini, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta It's not going to reoccur for another 13 years at least, but if you're hoping to catch a glimpse of the planet Mars as it passes closest to Earth from the Jakarta Planetarium at Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) in Central Jakarta...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
On artificial sweeteners
On artificial sweeteners I refer to the letter of Sunarto Prawirosujanto published in The Jakarta Post on Oct. 20 urging Indonesians to use more and more artificial sweeteners to avoid the importation of sugar.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Over 4,000 convicts get reduced sentences
Over 4,000 convicts get reduced sentences MEDAN, North Sumatra: A total 4,378 Muslim convicts currently being jailed in prisons across North Sumatra will get their sentences reduced during Idul Fitri, a senior government official said on Saturday.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Bending the law to save lives: Avian flu in Indonesia
Bending the law to save lives: Avian flu in IndonesiaMaya Lestari Jakarta Drug patents give to an inventor for a term of years the exclusive right to make, use or sell their invention -- meaning that other companies cannot make or market the drug until the patent expires.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
PT PAL launches cargo vessel
PT PAL launches cargo vessel SURABAYA: State-owned shipmaker PT PAL Indonesia launched a dry cargo vessel, with 18,500 dead weight tons, in its plant here on Friday. The vessel, ordered by Italian company Cube SpA, will be handed over in February. The contract was made on June 24, 2004.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Vatican condemns beheadings
Vatican condemns beheadings The Vatican called on Sunday the beheading of three Indonesian schoolgirls from a Christian high school a "barbaric" attack and said Pope Benedict XVI was praying for renewed peace between the region's people.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Parades banned along main roads
Parades banned along main roads JAKARTA: Those wishing to participate in takbiran parades on the eve of Idul Fitri should avoid the main thoroughfares of Jl. Sudirman and Jl. MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta, Jakarta Police warned.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Tougher tests await Irene in bid for international glory
Tougher tests await Irene in bid for international gloryMusthofid, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Teen chess prodigy Irene Kharisma lived up to the huge expectations of her last week by taking a major step toward becoming the country's first women's grand master.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
checked -- JSR
checked -- JSR Cultural Heritage exhibition sees few visitors Evi Mariani The Jakarta Post/JakartaOn a typical Wednesday morning at the National Museum, fewer than 10 people were seen strolling around the three-month Shared Cultural Heritage exhibition, which is displaying hundreds of ethnographic...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Airport terminal confusion
Airport terminal confusionFrom KompasTerminal I of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport apparently receives less serious attention from Angkasa Pura, the country's airport management association.There has always been a state of confusion in the terminal's front parking area, resulting from car...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Antam's 9-month profit rises 32%
Antam's 9-month profit rises 32% JAKARTA: PT Aneka Tambang (Antam), a mining company 65 percent owned by the government, said its profit rose 32 percent in the first nine months of this year on increased sales of higher grade nickel ore, gold and silver.Net income rose to Rp 711.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Homes remain elusive for Acehnese on Idul Fitri
Homes remain elusive for Acehnese on Idul FitriNani Afrida, The Jakarta Post, Banda Aceh It was almost dusk on Sunday, but a group of children at the refugee camp were still playing outside despite the mud after a heavy downpour in Banda Aceh.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Balinese Hindus cleanse bombing site
Balinese Hindus cleanse bombing siteI Wayan Juniartha, The Jakarta Post, Kuta, Bali The whole area of Kuta Square Arcade, one of the sites targeted by terrorists in the Oct. 1 Bali bombings, was transformed into a sacred space on Sunday, when hundreds of Balinese Hindus held a ceremony to purify...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Residents block only road to Bojong dump site
Residents block only road to Bojong dump siteAbdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Consistent with their firm objection to the operation of a waste treatment plant in their area, hundreds of residents of Bojong in Klapanunggal district, Bogor, West Java, erected on Sunday a wall to block the only...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Toward a virtual caliphate
Toward a virtual caliphate Peter Mandaville Yale Center for the Study of Globalization Arlington, Virginia The recent Zawahiri- Zarqawi Letter -- purportedly a missive on strategy and tactics from al-Qaeda's to their man in Iraq -- once again raises the question of bin Laden's capacity to inspire...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
China utilizes Nanning for trade with ASEAN
China utilizes Nanning for trade with ASEAN The following is the first article in the second series on the Second China-ASEAN Expo held from Oct. 19 to Oct. 22 in Nanning in the southwestern autonomous region of Guangxi, China.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
1. Madi ----- 3x16
1. Madi ----- 3x16 NGOs demand independent probe into Mahdi case 2. Mudik ---- 1x28 More holiday travelers opt for motorbikes 3. Bird ----- 1x36 Asian firms bracing for bird flu catastrophe 4. Da'i ----- 1x36 Da'i pledges support for police bribery probe
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Legislative oversight and the war on terror
Legislative oversight and the war on terrorBantarto Bandoro Jakarta "The proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government." (John Stuart Mill, 1861) "Terrorism, like war, is too important to be left to the generals and the government intelligence agencies.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Commission put on hold
Commission put on hold JAKARTA: Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh said over the weekend the Prosecutor's Commission, which was supposed to be up and running by October, had been put on hold indefinitely.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
New Hankam-Cikunir route eases traffic
New Hankam-Cikunir route eases trafficAbdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Suparjo, a resident of a housing complex in Lebak Bulus, South Jakarta, is thankful that during this year's rush to get out of town for the Idul Fitri holiday, the new Hankam-Cikunir toll road will let him and his family...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Indonesian experience helps to get better idea of the market
Indonesian experience helps to get better idea of the market Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor Corp. has made Indonesia and Thailand its bases for IMV (Innovative International Multi- purpose Vehicle) production in Southeast Asia.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
SBY's 1.8 million hectare disaster?
SBY's 1.8 million hectare disaster? We all remember Soeharto's disastrous 1 million hectare sawah (rice field) project in Central Kalimantan, the consequences of which still affect the province.Will President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) attach his name to an even bigger ecological, sociological,...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Students ready for bird flu fight
Students ready for bird flu fight BOGOR: At least 400 Indonesian university students are ready to go house-to-house to check for bird flu in chickens that people keep in their backyards, university officials said on Saturday.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Communal conflicts and terrorism
Communal conflicts and terrorismRiwanto Tirtosudarmo, Jakarta The intention of the Indonesian Military (TNI) Chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto to revive the territorial command is not a surprise at all. It is only a reflection of a long established self image of the military as the nation's sole...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Judicial corruption not only rampant but also shameful
Judicial corruption not only rampant but also shamefulFrans H. Winarta, Jakarta In the midst of the anticorruption campaign introduced by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in his first year term of office, an incident occurred at the Supreme Court recently in which a lawyer and five staff members...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Depok to build new bus terminal
Depok to build new bus terminal DEPOK: The Depok administration will build a new bus terminal for city, inter-city and inter-province public buses in the Jatijajar area in Cimanggis in 2006, Tempo Interaktif reported on Sunday.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
BRI posts 8 percent drop in profit
BRI posts 8 percent drop in profit State-run Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), the nation's fourth largest bank, announced that net profit dropped by 8 percent in the first nine months of the year, following a decline in its proceeds from recapitalization bonds.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Parades banned along main roads
Parades banned along main roads JAKARTA: Those wishing to participate in takbiran parades on the eve of Idul Fitri should avoid the main thoroughfares of Jl. Sudirman and Jl. MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta, Jakarta Police warned.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Sutiyoso to help pro-bono lawyers
Sutiyoso to help pro-bono lawyers JAKARTA: Governor Sutiyoso pledged funds from the city budget on Saturday to help renovate the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute's (YLBHI) building on Jl. Dponegoro, Central Jakarta."I hope the fund needed (for the renovation) is less than Rp 10 billion ...
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
The evil among us
The evil among us Barbaric! No other word describes the anger and exasperation many of us feel at hearing the news of the killing and beheading of three teenage girls in the Central Sulawesi district of Poso on Saturday. No decent human being could have done such a sadistic thing.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Lombok tourism 'recovering' after Bali bomb attacks
Lombok tourism 'recovering' after Bali bomb attacksThe hotel occupancy rate on Lombok island, West Nusa Tenggara, has improved after being badly affected by the Bali bombings on Oct. 1, a senior hotelier said on Saturday.
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Da'i pledges support for police bribery probe
Da'i pledges support for police bribery probeThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta Former National Police chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar says he will support the ongoing investigation into allegations of high-level police corruption that allegedly occurred during his tenure.
Sun, 30 Oct 2005
Installment of MRP members delayed
Installment of MRP members delayedINDONESIA: The inauguration of members into the Papuan People's Council (MRP) in the provincial capital of Jayapura has been delayed for technical reasons, a senior Papuan councillor said on Saturday.
Sun, 30 Oct 2005
Nikko hampers have RI flavor
Nikko hampers have RI flavor To celebrate Idul Fitri, the Nikko Hotel is putting together a range of hampers, which guests can order until Nov. 3.The hampers have been beautifully arranged by executive chef Setiyanto and pastry chef Sapto Wibowo and his team.
Sun, 30 Oct 2005
JewelFest hopes to make Singapore a jewelry shopping destination
JewelFest hopes to make Singapore a jewelry shopping destinationStevie Emilia, The Jakarta Post/Singapore With its sparkle and shine, jewelry has long provided that extra glitz for the fashion world. But now jewelry is stepping out on its own and taking over center stage.
Sun, 30 Oct 2005
Hospitals need reputation management
Hospitals need reputation managementRudijanto, Contributor, Jakarta An email sent to a cyber mailing list in the third week of October warning all mailing list members about the poor coordination at a Greater Jakarta-based hospital could have a more damaging impact on the hospital's reputation once...
Sun, 30 Oct 2005
Man arrested with 1,000 detonators
Man arrested with 1,000 detonatorsINDONESIA: East Nusa Tenggara Police said on Saturday they had arrested a man in possession of 1,000 detonators."The preliminary assumption is that the detonators were going to be sold for illegal fishing purposes, but we are not discounting other possibilities,"...
Sun, 30 Oct 2005
Azyumardi Azra:
Azyumardi Azra:Islam, restraint and corruptionKurniawan Hari The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Prominent Muslim intellectual and rector at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) in Ciputat, Banten, Prof. Azyumardi Azra is a friendly, humble person.